Baltic PM Days 2017 Speakers

For more than twenty years, Tim Jaques has been passionately exploring, thinking, speaking, and writing on the topics of project management, organizational change, culture, performance, and resistance. Tim is an avid writer, presenter, and facilitator.

Tim’s work today focuses on business transformations and workplace performance. Tim has worked with a variety of private and public sector clients including General Electric, Tufts University, the US Census Bureau, ACE Insurance, and many others. Tim is a long-time entrepreneur, having built several companies from scratch. He is based out of New York City.

Tim’s core capabilities include project and program management, performance improvement, execution and operations, organizational change management, IT transformation, and business strategy. Tim co-authored the International Project Management Association (IPMA) Individual Competence Baseline, version 4, an international project, program and portfolio competence standard. He has published two books on US Federal government PM practices; and written numerous articles on project management, organizational change and transformation.

Tim is a musician, husband, and father of two sons. Tim is a past vice-president of IPMA-USA and has held numerous board positions.

Jerzy is project & portfolio management and management consultant and trainer, with experience in building project-based organizations and in supporting agile transformations.

Jerzy’s passion is reinventing and improving organizations and teams with focus on getting business results with self-organising teams and strategic role of managers. Jerzy is promoter of new management methods, of team empowerment and self-organization.

Speaker at international PM and Agile conferences, assessor of IPMA Project Excellence Award (since 2005) and of the Project of the Year Award PMI Poland Chapter, columnist and philosopher.

After hours: reader, hiker and traveler, fascinated with East and Chinese culture and philosophy, including stoicism.

Experienced project and programme management practitioner since 2002, Artūras has been leading strategic change initiatives at numerous banks and IT organisations in Lithuania. In addition to driving a complex programme at Barclaycard, he is teaching programme management and process science to students at a number of business schools

Aiste Miskuniene is leading IT Strategy Execution Office in Danske Bank – it’s a Project Management Center of Excellence focused on delivering strategic IT projects and programmes. Aiste is also managing IT Strategy portfolio ensuring successful delivery of Danske Bank IT Strategy laid out for 2020.
Aiste has more than 10 years of experience managing projects and programmes ranging from software development and IT infrastructure projects to large transformational programmes in financial sector. Before joining Danske Bank Aiste has been leading Project Management Center of Excellence in Barclays as well as delivering IT infrastructure projects and programmes. Aiste feels very passionate about building a strong and happy project management team and helping organization to succeed in delivering it’s IT Strategy

Donatas Voverys
Topic | Doing what’s never been done: How do you close Lithuania’s main airport for 35 days in the middle of the high season | ABSTRACT

Donatas has around 10 years of experience in managing projects, participating in various phases of projects as an expert of the field or establishing project management best practices for clients as well as his own organizations. His area of expertise is infrastructure and IT projects. Donatas also gives lectures in project management. At Lithuanian Airports he’s is the head of project management committee and a member of steering committee for the Vilnius Airport runway reconstruction project.